Joylynn Hardesty

This past late winter our electric company installed fiber for Internet. It has killed many of my shrubs and trees. Fortunately, most were volunteers at no financial cost. There were no nasty spraying involved.

Observe.




Watching the land under the power lines, I've been trying to figure out what may survive there. These are not the complete lists. Will add as more are seen.

List of the dead
Wild cherry trees
An apple tree
Chinese privit
Wild roses
Black locust
Hybrid willows (type unknown)
Goldenrod!
Poke salat

List of survivors
Pine trees
Oaks
Callery pears
Elderberries
Redbud trees
Weigela
Spiderwort
Passion fruit
Some spiky plant with spearlike leaves like yucca

Seen below is live privit at 15 feet away from the power lines. To the right, that tangle of dead sticks is mostly privit.



Has anyone else had success with trees under these circumstances?

Thanks guys! I would like to keep it under 10 feet tall. Any tips on pruning?

Here are pictures from early spring 2025. Everything had signs of life. We had cut the tree size stakes to 3 feet tall. Necessary because my property line has electric lines running down two sides.







Here the fountain grass established nicely even at the low height early spring it appeared to be slowing down the river. One clump got knocked over in the rushing waters, but it is still living. This picture is from this week, September 2025.


And here is my pretty fountain grass nursery. I may wait till the fall rains are over before transplanting so I don't have more tipped over clumps. We'll see.



Only one willow survived. Grrr!

Tree? Shrub? Dunno. Woody trunk, currently 6 feet tall with the bloom at the central leader. It must be a gift from the birdies! I bent the branches around to get details. It is growing upward, not naturally bending down.

I found the lyrics here on lyrics.com

To mend the crack, I'd try some bow ties. I have never done this, so here are some instructions that make sense to me.

Here's a blog about bow ties where I found the pretty picture below.




Dunno what to do with the screw.

I get the same error code.  

EDIT: ERROR in brave on Android. The site opens fine on Firefox on Android.

I just got through cleaning up my bed of weeds garlic bed polyculture in before garlic  decide to resprout for the fall growing season. I took the bulbils from last growing season, spread the out to cover the surface of remainder of that side of the bed, and covered them up with layer of pine needles.

Here, garlic sprouts in fall and continues to grow all winter. I began to wonder, would onions do the same? According to Harvesting History, yes. Though the resulting onions do not store as well as spring planted onions. I just want some onions!

Onions should be planted twice a year – once in the fall and once in the spring. The fall-planted onions can be harvested throughout the summer and early fall. The spring-planted onions can be harvested throughout the fall and early winter.

I will have to try this out! In the past, I have done very poorly with onions, even sets. I believe this to be a me problem, not my land. For one thing, I can't tell the difference between a tiny tiny chufa sprout and an onion sprout. My my poor onions are overwhelmed with allopathy.

So, enter the seed snail roll. As we are still in the seasonal drought, I'll be burying my snail to take advantage of Hunny's current watering habit. The seed trays dry out too fast in this weather.

It was "hey Doc, there's a thing in my knee
Been workin' underground since '83"
Doctor said, "I got you the remedy
It'll kill that pain real quick, trust me"
Didn't take long, half the town was on it
Didn't ask questions, nah, we just popped them
Doctors getting fat from raking in kickbacks
It all happened so fast
One man's grave is another man's paycheck
Rx meds at our expense
Forget the coal mines, they hit a goldmine
Hooked us on six feet of side effects
Like a wolf dressed in sheep's clothes
The devil wore a lab coat
Appalachian map dots were the perfect bullseye
For the pharma reps chasing dollar signs
All their billions couldn't buy a decent alibi
You can say what you want, but tombstones don't lie
Strong towns torn down by little pills
Sold with a smile, don't care when it kills
No coincidence, no conspiracy
It just is what it is, it's our history
One man's grave is another man's paycheck
Rx meds at our expense
Forget the coal mines, they hit a goldmine
Hooked us on six feet of side effects
Like a wolf dressed in sheep's clothes
The devil wore a lab coat
The devil wore a lab coat
Only God can judge
But they're corrupt and they don't care
We'd tell them to go to hell
But they're already going there
Yeah, they're already going there
One man's grave is another man's paycheck
Rx meds at our expense
Forget the coal mines, they hit a goldmine
Hooked us on six feet of side effects
Like a wolf dressed in sheep's clothes
The devil wore a lab coat, mm
The devil wore a lab coat, mm, oh
One man's grave is another man's paycheck, mm

source: https://lyricsondemand.com/mary_kutter/the_devil_wore_a_lab_coat